Suspect in Kan. homicides held on separate crime

KANSAS CITY, Kan. 
A 37-year-old man identified by police as a "person of interest" in a quadruple homicide in Kansas City, Kan., has been charged with beating another man hours before the slayings.

Prosecutors said Wednesday that Adrian Burks of Kansas City, Kan., was being held on $2 million bond. Burks is charged with aggravated battery in an attack Monday that prosecutors believe is related to the shooting deaths of four people later that day.

Police on Wednesday identified the victims of the shooting as 66-year-old James A. Warren; 21-year-old Amanda J. Remmers; 41-year-old Peggy Castleberry; and her 3-year-old daughter, Juanita D. Castleberry-Bess. All were from Kansas City, Kan.